Key-handle.



F. R. ALFORD.

KEY HANDLE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 2,1905.

902,793 Patented Nov. 3, 1908,

3] wuawro e UNITED RTAT ER PATENT FRANK R. ALFORD, COMPANY, OF

To all whom it may concern:

hat I, FRANK Be it known t citizen of the United States, residing at Ninsted, Litchiield county, State of Connecticut, j have invented certain new provements in Key-Handles,

full, clear, and exact descripl purpose of providing -following is a tion.

iWIy invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in the like, the object being to and effective construction whereby such economically produce finished, will possess great durability.

In the accompanying shown my invention as applied to a winding key for clocks, although the particular use to which the invention is applied is immaterial.

Figure vices may be which, when strength and In the drawings,

tion of my invention; tion of one of the details shown in Fig. 1 and in a lane at right angles to Fig. 3 is a side elevation of an- 2 said 'hgure;

other detail, detached.

shank of a key, being of any suitable design or construction. l

the shank is centrally bored j cesses being formed by an said head 1 represents the In this instance the clock.

2 is the head, oi suitable contour, and having a slot out into its Fig. 2.

shank just below cess 6 and the de slot 3 is of a widt tially to the thickness finger-piece 5.

4 is a groove or recess in the side of the l the head 2. l 5 is the finger-piece having the central re- 1 endent ears 1 corresponding substan OF WINSTED, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO WM WINSTED, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF KE Y-HANDLE Application filed May 2, 1908. Serial No. 430,530.

R. ALFORD, a

and useful Iming the two recesses I form groove, as shown, handles for keys and once two provide a sun le (1 and Preferably the holding drawings, I havej lingenpiece firml thus making a firm the two parts.

What I claim is: 1. In a device of head portion 1 is a side eleva- 2 is a side eleva- Fig.

j the that shown in i said shank l to stand in said slot,

piece projecting into extending around olined walls to draw s i forced home.

end, as best seen at 3,

2. In a device 0']. the

finger-piece arranged 7-7. The

l thereof, and lugs of the material of the iece and embracing handle may be readily For simplicity s sake and instead in the side of the head of which the 1 below the ends of the slot therein, for the holding shoulders, lugs 7-? but also givlng to ei symmetrical and ornamental appearance.

, in the opposite sides of said head the plane of the slot, a finger-piece arranged and lugs on said fingersaid recesses, said rel jtightly into said slot head and standing in the dependent the shouldered portion j of said head to hold the linger-piece firmly in OFFICE.-

. L. GILBERT CLOCK CONNECTICUT.

atented Nov. 3, 1908.

"firmly locking the fin- By this simple means a formed. of formholding shoulders for the annular recess or not only providing at required for the the head a more shoulders, with which i the lugs engage, are suitably inclined so that l when said lugs are struck in against said shoulders, the tendency will be to draw the Y down against the bottom of the groove in the upper end of the head,

and rigid connection of character described, a

having a slot therein, recesses and below annular groove and having inaid fingenpiece down when the lugs are character described, a

head slotted at the end, holding shoulders at the sides 01 said. head below said slot, a

transversely oi said slotted portion from said linger- In assembling the parts, the shank and ii place, said shoulders having inclined walls to ger-piece, the latter is inserted into the slot 3 down until the ends 77 stand adjacent to the recessed portion "formed by the groove 4. These ears 77 are then struck in, as best seen in they project into said recessed and pressed oi the shank Fig. 1, until draw said linger-piece oi the ears I slot when the lugs are FRANK R.

Witnesses:

ALFORD. [in s.]

HARVEY L. STANSON, RUssELL M. WILLIAMS. 

